Society of Robots - Robot Forum

Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: geek1 on December 25, 2008, 07:03:39 PM

Title: cheap microcontroller
Post by: geek1 on December 25, 2008, 07:03:39 PM

does anyone know where i can get a cheap development board for a PIC16F84 microcontroller?

Title: Re: cheap microcontroller
Post by: airman00 on December 25, 2008, 07:13:54 PM

why PIC and not AVR ?

Title: Re: cheap microcontroller
Post by: geek1 on December 25, 2008, 08:12:52 PM

right after I posted that, I re-thought the design and decided on the AVR ATmega8. know where I can get a development board for that?

Thanks for your help in advance :)

Title: Re: cheap microcontroller
Post by: airman00 on December 25, 2008, 08:20:31 PM

Sure I know of some

For $40 - Roboduino- This board uses either the ATmega8 , ATmega168, or ATmega328 . Has a socket so you can plug in microcontrollers
http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/roboduino
(http://curiousinventor.com/images/kits/roboduino/roboduino.jpg)

For $130 -  Axon - a microcontroller board with some high power get the Axon. No socket , ATmega640 microcontroller is surface mount
http://www.societyofrobots.com/axon/
(http://www.societyofrobots.com/axon/images/axon_photo.JPG)

It is worthwhile noting that I designed and created the Roboduino and Admin ( the creator of this forum) designed and created the Axon.So basically if you have any questions you can just post on this forum and you can get support straight from the creators .

Title: Re: cheap microcontroller
Post by: geek1 on December 25, 2008, 09:11:08 PM

thanks, I thought the Roboduino only accepted the arduino lol

Title: Re: cheap microcontroller
Post by: airman00 on December 25, 2008, 09:53:39 PM

Quote from: geek1 on December 25, 2008, 09:11:08 PM

thanks, I thought the Roboduino only accepted the arduino lol

The Roboduino is AVR based so it can handle the Arduino language and straight C ( free compilers exist for the Arduino and regular C) . You could also buy a BASIC compiler for any AVR based board.